Video player

Astraport

Yes, you are right. Change format video and it work.

pautay

hey guys,

I have mp4 video playing with the videoPlayer, working well on IOS but I have black screen on Android ? Is this because of the video format, should i convert it to m4v ?

Thanks

crooksy

Mp4 format will work with VideoPlayer on Android. I'm currently building an app which uses this successfully.

Your issue might due to the device you're testing on and Android version it's running?

Could do with knowing more details about your development environment and what AS3 you are using to locate and load the mp4.

pautay

mmh i'm rotating the video actually maybe that the problem...

player = new VideoPlayer();
	player.rotation = deg2rad(-90);
	player.y = stage.stage.stageHeight;
	this.addChild( player );

	var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("videos/vid.mp4");
	player.videoSource = file.url;

	loader = new ImageLoader();
	loader.width = stage.stageHeight;
	loader.height = stage.stageWidth;
	player.addChild( loader );

pautay

Ok that was the problem...the rotation...does anybody know a way to rotate and working on all devices ?

Arf, and not working on every android device...

jkafkaris

Hi All,

I'm using the video player and was having the error mentioned on the previous page when publishing an iPad app from Windows:

Error: Video Textures are not supported on this platform

I was using Starling 1.8, Feathers 2.3.0 and AIR 21

I then tried the solution for that post and went back to AIR 18 and it worked. I then tried AIR 19 and 20 and it was still an issue.

Is this a known bug in AIR? Hoping I don't have to stay on AIR 18.

Thanks.

stoff99

Hi all,

I was using Starling 1.8, Feathers 2.3.0 and AIR 21.

I always get Error #3605: Sampler 0 binds an invalid texture. on Android and Mac.
On iOS its working.

I just add the simple player example from http://feathersui.com/help/video-player.html.
As video source i used: http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4

Mac: I get the error when the video is finish.
AndroidL I get the error when i close the app or swipe down the Android bar from the top.

Makes no difference if i use Air 18 or Air 21.

I have the feeling its always a problem to display videos in Air mobile apps.
I also used the native extension video player from distriqt a year ago and there was also much issues. On iOS it was working, on Android it was terrible ...

What are you using out there?? 🙂 Is there some nice solution to provide videos on Android and iOS?

Thx, Stefan

timo

Sorry Stefan, no answers to your #3605 error.. 🙁

I was wondering is Android supposed to be able to play FLV videos with the VideoTexture? I'm not seeing anything, whereas MP4's work fine. However, on my Mac the FLV's work fine also!

I would love to switch into MP4, but the problem for me is that it takes almost 2 seconds for the MP4 video (included in the app package) to start playing on Android, whereas FLV's play instantly, or at least they did on Michael Trenkler's Starling Video Extension.

I could keep using the extension and FLV's and be happy, but I would need the extension ported for Starling 2.0 that I'm migrating into right now, and I didn't succeed in porting at least on my first try, the inner workings of Quad's are oustide my scope of understanding...

VideoTexture with FLV on Android might take just as long to start playing, but with FLV video I could draw the first frame into a texture immediately with the good old Video object and show that until the VideoTexture is ready! This is in turn not possible with MP4 videos, because on Android, the Video object is not capable of displaying MP4's.

Aaargh! Cursed be the videos and Android!

So unless someone knows how to

a) make VideoTexture load MP4's quicker

b) play FLV's on Android VideoTexture

I just need to settle into worse UX after updating into VideoTexture, which I was hoping to be an upgrade, not downgrade...

skizzo

Hi,
I'm trying to use the VideoPlayer in an AIR Desktop (!) project. Tried it with AIR 18.0, 19.0 and 20.0 and I keep getting the error

[Fault] exception, information=Error: Video Textures are not supported on this platform

Any idea how this could be solved? Thanks.

EDIT: Turns out that I had to add the compiler flag -swf-version=32 🙂 Problem solved, thanks y'all!

stoff99

An Update:
I retested the Distriqt Media Player native extension. http://airnativeextensions.com/extension/com.distriqt.MediaPlayer

I use the video as fullscreen video player. Also the screen rotation is working. (landscape, portrait).

Works for iOS and Android for local videos (ApplicationStorageDirectory) and http/https.

Jacowaco

@stoff99 does that ANE plays the videos inside the app?

I tried the @myflashlab ANE: http://www.myflashlabs.com/product/video-player-ane-adobe-air-native-extension/
But it opens the Android video player outside the app.

Jacowaco

Oh i just saw they have other two ANEs for this:
http://www.myflashlabs.com/product/surface-embedded-video-player-ane/
http://www.myflashlabs.com/product/rich-webview-ane-adobe-air-native-extension/

stoff99

@Jacowaco yes you can place inside of the app. Fullscreen or you can set w,h,x,y as you want.
Let me know your experience with the other Player ANE please.
Thx Stefan

v_matevosyan

Hello,
When I create a VideoPlayer instance and add ImageLoader, first time the video plays only few seconds (4-5) and then just pauses. However, opening the same video second time it plays perfectly to the end. Is there any way to fix this?

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